Ubuntu Security Notice USN-680-1
27th November, 2008
samba vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 8.10
Software description
- samba
Details
It was discovered that Samba did not properly perform bounds checking
in certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this to
read arbitrary memory contents of the smb process, which could contain
sensitive infomation or possibly have other impacts, such as a denial of
service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 8.10:
- samba 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.3
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.